Christian Henderson
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Political economy, political ecology and Middle East and North Africa. I daydream about mountains. I work in a university and I teach and write. Views mine.
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I wrote about Israel's tactic of famine in Gaza
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Just a reminder that the Islamic University of Gaza has been destroyed. Staff members have been killed. Its website is offline.
Genocide is not only the murder of people but also the erasure of their institutions. European academia has been completely silent about this crime.
Media coverage: "The ruins of what was the Islamic University of Gaza, levelled to the ground by aerial Israeli bombardment."
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Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.
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Israel is sorry it dropped the wrong bomb on the refugee camp, but says next time it will make sure that it drops the right bomb on the refugee camp.
"A mistake was made."
Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy says an "incorrect munition" was used on a refugee camp in central Gaza which killed at least 68 Palestinians, including women and children.
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233, YouTube
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The Prime Minister's Office:
Israel does not recognize the legitimacy of the proceedings of the international court in The Hague regarding 'the legality of the occupation' – which are an effort designed to infringe on Israel's right to defend itself against existential threats.
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I was looking for documentaries today and was reminded of 2002's Jenin, Jenin, and particularly this interview. The film was banned in Israel.
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"Almost half the total CO2 emissions were down to US cargo planes flying military supplies to Israel."
Israel’s war on Gaza has produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year, causing “immense” impact on climate
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So basically South African scientists did the work of the Europeans and instead of being thanked they got blamed
JUST IN: Omicron COVID variant was in Europe before South African scientists detected and flagged it to the world
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And you wonder why colonised people take up arms?
#BREAKING
United States vetoes Security Council draft resolution that would have demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, and immediate and unconditional release of all hostages
VOTE
In Favour: 13
Against: 1 (US)
Abstain: 1 (UK)
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Israel has been murdering academics in Gaza on a daily basis for weeks but Western universities are staying silent as mice...
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Did they really blow up those houses with people inside?
🔊 Listen closely to hear echoes of the final cries of innocent civilians being annihilated,an entire neighborhood in
#Gaza
erased over the heads of residents today
Yet,not a single entity in this world,at the very least,condemns it
The Israeli army’s brutality is beyond words!
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Just in case you want to know what the future looks like, right now in Gaza AI algorithms based on data from unmanned drones are coordinating the annihilation of families in refugee camps located in a giant open air prison.
This is one of the most dystopian images I've ever seen.
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I am trying to find out how many academics and researchers have been killed in Gaza. Here is a thread of martyred academics I have seen announced on Twitter. Please feel free to add to it.
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The World Cup in Qatar is a rare moment of open space and assembly in the Arab region. It is very telling that as soon as a free forum emerges, it has been immediately filled with explicit expressions of solidarity for the Palestinians.
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I am an academic and I call for a free Palestine and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world view and my scholarship
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"Palestinians need a Ghandi" say the same people who smeared BDS as antisemitic, and who completely ignored the Great March of Return in 2018, when Israeli snipers gunned down hundreds of Palestinian protestors on the border fence.
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Will Palestinian journalists get a special citation for their courage, endurance and commitment to truthful reporting?
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The oldest university in Gaza has just been destroyed. I look forward to all the statements of condemnation from European counterparts
The Islamic University of Gaza,
#Gaza
's top university and Palestine's third ranking, has been bombed to smithereens
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@lawrence_wright
If you think it's dehumanising to the soldiers, wait till you hear about what it does to Palestinians...
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"The biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history"
“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history,” a reconstructive surgeon who specializes in pediatric trauma said, of the record number of children who have been injured in the war in Gaza.
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Why are Western media saying that the cause of violence in Palestine is the coincidence of Passover, Easter and Ramadan? This is not a religious conflict. The cause of violence is one of the longest military occupation in history and the Israeli state's system of apartheid.
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Arthur Balfour, author of the Balfour Declaration, was University of Glasgow rector between 1890-1893. Decolonisation is not a metaphor...
🚨 Glasgow Uni students have elected Palestinian Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah as Rector. He focused on Gaza, saying "a vote for me is a vote of solidarity" with Palestine.
🟩 Ghassan Abu-Sittah: 80%
🟥 Paul Sweeney MSP: 8%
⬜️ Susan McCabe: 7%
⬜️ Rita Rae: 5%
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Just so we are clear, economic warfare and blockades are fine as long as its not the Houthis who are doing it.
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All 12 universities in Gaza have been destroyed in the Israeli assault. Three presidents and 100 deans and professors have been killed.
Academic ties with Israeli institutions are simply untenable.
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If you want to commit major violations of international law, you need to call in the professionals...
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Germany can no longer be considered as a fully democratic country that respects freedom of speech
Invited to address a conference in Berlin about my work in Gaza hospitals during the present conflict.
The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country
Silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany's complicity in the ongoing massacre.
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Death by cancer is a tragedy, death by airstrike is a crime
BREAKING| According to Doha News, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a conference in Doha he is“deeply, deeply sorry for the almost unimaginable loss suffered by your colleague, Wael Dahdouh. I am a parent myself, I can’t begin to imagine the horror that he has
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There are people on this app claiming that warning a home will be bombed in 10 minutes is humanitarian.
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When you threaten occupied people with genocide, don't be surprised when they fight for their survival.
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Please stop with the fake innocence. It takes 20 seconds online to find footage of Palestinian children decapitated by Israeli bombs.
Israelis are now living in a movie, a sealed bubble designed by Channel 12 military correspondent Nir Dvori and IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari. They have no idea what we have left behind in Gaza, and what is said about us in the world | Opinion | Uri Misgav
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I am very sorry to hear that Leiden University's management has cancelled a student-led event on Palestine next week. This is in clear breach of academic freedom and makes a mockery of the university's motto "praesidium libertatis".
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Probably a good time to reiterate that access to food is a matter of distribution, not scarcity
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Remember the "Middle East is of declining importance to Western power" takes?
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The biggest loss for the Israeli military is its prestige, the perception of total dominance over Palestinians, and the idea that occupation can be maintained without resistance. No matter what the immediate response, that will not be easy to regain
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Does anyone else fantasise about giving everyone in Gaza safety and shelter? A hot shower, warm bed and a meal. I wish I could do that.
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Western troops in Afghanistan killed thousands of civilians. At least 50,000 in 20 years. A few baby rescue photos at Kabul airport doesn't change this
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This Palestinian victim of Israeli terrorism won't have his name published in a Western newspaper. His family will not be interviewed. There will be no international condemnation.
Documentation: A settler shot a Palestinian point blank in the village A-Tuwani, South Hebron Hills
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The author of this ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza receives funding from the German Research Foundation (the DFG).
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You really get an insight into the potential for unity and struggle that has been so deeply repressed. No wonder Israel views Arab dictatorships as integral to its continuity as a colonial entity. They are keeping a lid on a volcano.
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In 2006 I was a journalist in Beirut covering the Hizbullah-Israel war. The Daily Express paid me to photograph stranded UK citizens, which I did. When I sent the photos of UK citizens of Lebanese descent, the editor asked me to go back and find people who 'looked more British'
"The UK media is not bigoted and will not be swayed from its vital role holding the rich and powerful to account following the attack on the press by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex": Robust statement from
@EditorsUK
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What is the point of Middle East Studies if it stays silent on Palestine?
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First time I have been to a Palestine solidarity protest led by Jewish prayer and song. Beautiful to see. This was in the Hague this evening.
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Sorry but we can only wipe out entire families in Gaza if the judiciary is independent
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#Breaking
: 37 out of 40 reserve pilots in Israel Air Force combat unit will not train this week to protest Netanyahu's efforts at régime change.
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I, an American billionaire hedge fund manager, have decided its time to give advice to the Palestinian people
A few high-level thoughts on a potential solution in Gaza:
Step one:
Give Gazan residents something to look forward to. Without hope, there is only despair, anger, and violence.
Hope comes from Israel’s and United States’ commitment that once Hamas is destroyed, Israel and
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Just a reminder for professional and amateur journalists.
"Unconfirmed report" is baseless rumour.
And the Israeli Army lies, just ask Shereen Abu Akleh.
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Employees of the Dutch foreign ministry stage a sit in for a ceasefire in Gaza outside their ministry
Zo’n honderd ambtenaren/diplomaten van Buitenlandse Zaken zijn op de grond gaan zitten voor een staakt-het-vuren in Gaza. Zelden komen ambtenaren zo openlijk in opstand tegen kabinetsbeleid.
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Gaza's higher education system has been decimated. All universities, institutions and archives have been obliterated. At least 40 academics have been killed. How can Western universities continue institutional relations with their Israeli counterparts?
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There's good hospitals and bad hospitals
Antony Blinken: "We can never let the crimes Russia's committing become our new normal... bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal"
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A $25 billion defense budget and some of the most sophisticated arms in the world cannot stop the will of the oppressed, and it never will
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Israeli journalists being shunned and denounced in Qatar is not reflexive hatred; it reflects the Arab public's consistent refusal to accept occupation and apartheid. Normalisation is only possible when this sentiment is repressed. It is incompatible with democracy.
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I look forward to the condemnation from Western universities...
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“Are you truly incapable of shame? Is there literally nothing that can shame you? Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin?”
Samantha Power to Syria, Iran and Russia in 2016
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Ramadan has been celebrated in the Netherlands since at least the 16th century and the Dutch Empire was majority Muslim. So it is part of Dutch history and culture
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Authoritarian neoliberalism has meant that consumer choice is one of the only means to express politics
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The Houthi blockade upholds the 2005 UN agreement on the Responsibiility to Protect, the one that was invoked to justify intervention in Syria and Libya.
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Morocco's player Jawad El Yamiq raises the flag of
#Palestine
while celebrating his country's 2-1 victory over Canada at
#FIFAWorldCup
in Qatar.
#FIFAWorldCupQatar2022
#FIFAWorldCup
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Much of the Western mainstream media fails to cover Palestine objectively and BBC is one of the worst offenders
BBC News has shown a clear bias, giving Israeli victims more coverage and more compassion than Palestinian victims.
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"We call on Israel to fabricate an account that absolves both of us of any responsibility"
We have called on Israel to immediately investigate and provide a full, transparent explanation of what happened.
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"Celebrate the release of hostages and we will shoot you"
"We understand a teenager has been shot. Is this the right way to handle the situation?" asks
@SkyYaldaHakim
Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem
@FleurHassanN
says "part of the deal is that there would be no celebrations for the release of attempted murderers."
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Wait till this guy hears about the British Empire
So Iran, a country that is 75 times bigger than Israel, is launching hundreds of rockets, and you’re still thinking Israel is the oppressor?
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I am more interested to hear how Palestinians interpret their condition, frankly
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As a parent, I find it utterly unbearable to think that there is absolutely nothing parents in Gaza can do to protect their children. There is no safety anywhere.
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A nuclear armed state with one of the most advanced militaries in the world is attacking defenseless civilians in a strip of land holding refugees that were ethnically cleansed from their homes by said state.
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"We the Palestinians will recover. We will stand up again from the midst of destruction, as we have always done as Palestinians...But for those who are complicit I feel sorry for you. Will you ever recover from this?"
Please listen and feel the words of my good friend Rev.
@MuntherIsaac
in
#Bethlehem
. We wish you a peaceful Christmas.
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Hostage taking is bad. And Israel has kidnapped thousands more civilians than Hamas ever has
Israeli military arrested Ahed Tamimi from her house .
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Just finished grading! Now I have three weeks to produce world class publications and grant applications
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The regime that tortures doctors to death
A picture of orthopedic professor Adnan Al-Bursh before Israel arrested and subjected him to severe torture, ultimately killing him in one of the interrogation centers.
#GazaGenocide
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This war on Gaza has been the most horrific thing I have ever observed, and I am sure I am not the only one to feel that. But I have never felt deeper resolve or committment to supporting peace and justice for all people in Palestine.
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So UAE, when are you going to use all that leverage you got from the Abraham Accords?
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Within two weeks of the invasion of Ukraine, Dutch universities cut all ties with Russian institutions.
But after three weeks of indiscriminate bombing and 7000 casualties, Dutch institutions maintain full links with Israeli counterparts. This double standard is unacceptable.
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Stop and reflect on how utterly useless and irrelevant many Western institutions are right now. The dissonance between their silence and complicity and the reality of the world is calamitous.
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This is nice but the Dutch emit more than 30% greenhouse gases per capita than the average European
Where does this bike path lead?
To the train station, of course.
Because that's how you actually build urban transport infrastructure in the time of a climate crisis.
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Institutional ties with Israeli universities are now untenable. In 2022 Dutch institutions cut ties with Russian universities on the basis that the invasion of Ukraine "was a direct assault on liberty and democracy". What will be the response to Israel's genocidal war in Gaza?
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US-Israeli war crimes live on air
An Israeli air strike hit an area near the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza while Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud was live on air.
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Leyen's contention that Israel "made the desert bloom" is a part of a long tradition of using the environment to justify European colonialism and appropriation.
Today we celebrate 75 years of Israel's independence and friendship with Europe.
A special message from President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen:
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The protests and scale of civil disobedience in Israel shows that the occupation and mistreatment of the Palestinians is a conscious societal choice.
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I think this might be the highest ranking current Western politician to discuss sanctions on Israel?
The deputy Prime Minister of
#Belgium
is saying it is time for sanctions against
#Israel
.
#moreofthis
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How the EU works. The EU just announced a increase in aid to Gaza by $25 million. Meanwhile Germany just authorised an increase in arms exports to Israel by more than $250 million.
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@aaronkreuter
@dmatkins137
It's not one of the darkest days in Jewish history. It's one of the darkest days in Zionist history.
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Do you remember the silence in 2018 when thousands of Palestinians in Gaza demonstrated on the fence of the territory and Israel shot dead 183 people and more than 6000 were injured?
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I have been to Erez several times and it is a symbol of despair and apartheid. The segregation and distress it causes is the antithesis of hope and coexistence
The Erez Crossing was once a key symbol for hope and coexistence. Before 10/7, Erez served as a main entryway for Gazans into Israel for work and humanitarian purposes. Hundreds of thousands of Gazans crossed into Israel via Erez this year, including 5,000+ for medical treatment.
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The Israeli state is hell bent on finding those six escapees not because they represent a threat to Israel, but because they represent hope for Palestinians
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The Orientalist tradition in Western academia dismisses the intellectual significance of colloquial Arabic. It is hostile to amiyyah and considers itself as the custodian of fusah. That's why it produces students who can discuss parliamentary elections but can't order a taxi
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"I feel sad. I feel angry. I feel infuriated."
Professor Nazmi Al-Masri tells
@vicderbyshire
how he felt seeing the Islamic University of Gaza, where he teaches, bombed by Israel.
#Newsnight
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By all means boycott the World Cup due to Qatar's bad record on labour rights, but at least be consistent and think of the role of dire labour conditions in just about everything else you consume: food, clothes, electronics; almost all commodities.
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Western punditry this morning: "Iran's weak and performative operation is a major aggression that will start WW3
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It's amazing how low the barrier of entry is for some Middle East think tankers. An MA degree, a little bit of eloquence, and bucketloads of entitlement and opportunism is widely understood as expertise
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Is this the good or bad popular resistance against an occupying army?
Palestinian youths throw stones and
#Molotov
cocktails at the occupation army’s vehicles as they storm the city of
#Nablus
in the
#WestBank
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#Palestine
#Israeli
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This decision is in sharp contrast to the university's stance on Ukraine in recent weeks. The university has hosted numerous events and made public statements. But war and occupation in Palestine are just as important and should also be discussed on campus.
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A Dutch court has ordered the government to stop supplying F-35 parts to Israel...
The court in The Hague just ordered the state of the Netherlands to halt all exports of F-35 parts to Israel. The state has 7 days to comply. /1
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The German government is silencing a witness to genocide who was invited to speak to the French parliament.
This anti-democratic measure places restrictions on freedom of speech and academic freedom across all EU states.
I am at Charles De Gaule airport. They are preventing me from entering France. I am supposed to speak at the French Senate today. They say the Germans put a 1 year ban on my entry to Europe.
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Can the British authorities go any lower? Yes they can
British man stranded in Rafah says MI5 offered to help him and his family escape from Gaza but only if he agreed to work for MI5.
He refused and now fears that his family, including a one-year-old with a serious medical condition, is in imminent danger.
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